THE AUK: 



A Q_U A R T E R L V J O U R N A L OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



VOL. x\rii. January, 1901. No. i 



IN MEMORIAM: ELLIOTT COUES.i 



Born 9th Sept. 1S4J. — Dikd 25th Dec. 1S99. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT, F. R. S. E., ETC. 



In the life of every nation, society or individual, no matter 

 how peaceful, prosperous or happy the record of the past may 

 have been, no matter how encouraging and bright the future may 

 be for further advancement, increased progress and greater 

 achievements in the path that always leads onward and upward, 

 toward the ultimate fulfillment of the highest destiny that may be 

 attained, in the varying shifting career that all must follow while 

 accomplishing the pilgrimage of earth, yet in the experience of all 

 even amidst the rush of a restless activity, there comes a time to 

 mourn. A time when the daily duties are temporarily neglected 

 or wholly laid aside, when the engrossing pursuits that occupy 

 the thoughts and call for the utmost energies of man's nature 

 cease for the moment to interest the mind, when the smile van- 

 ishes and joyous laughter no longer cheers the heart, when the 

 voice sinks to a whisper low and soft, as the sense of some 

 irreparable loss comes with stunning force to overwhelm the soul. 

 To this Society, to all its individual members, and to some of us 



' An address delivered at the Eighteenth Congress of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1900. 



